Ukraina: jeden z separatystów przyznaje, że bojownicy mieli zestaw Buk

Jeden z do­wód­ców pro­ro­syj­skich se­pa­ra­ty­stów we wschod­niej Ukra­inie po­twier­dził w wy­wia­dzie dla agen­cji Reu­te­ra, że bo­jow­ni­cy mieli prze­ciw­lot­ni­cze po­ci­ski ra­kie­to­we Buk, które zda­niem Wa­szyng­to­nu zo­sta­ły użyte do strą­ce­nia ma­le­zyj­skie­go sa­mo­lo­tu.

Aleksandr Chodakowski - dowódca batalionu Wostok Foto: Reuters

Wiedziałem, że Buk dotarł z Ługańska. W tym czasie powiedziano mi, że Buk z Ługańska przybył pod flagą ŁRL. Aleksandr Chodakowski, szef batalionu Wostok

Agen­cja pod­kre­śla, że w opu­bli­ko­wa­nym w środę wy­wia­dzie do­wód­ca ba­ta­lio­nu Wo­stok (Wschód) Alek­sandr Cho­da­kow­ski przy­znał po raz pierw­szy od czwart­ku, gdy pa­sa­żer­ski sa­mo­lot zo­stał ze­strze­lo­ny nad wschod­nią Ukra­iną, że re­be­lian­ci mieli ze­staw ra­kie­to­wy Buk. Po­twier­dził też, że ze­staw mógł po­cho­dzić z Rosji i mógł być tam ode­sła­ny, by usu­nąć dowód obec­no­ści tych ra­kiet.

Reu­ters przy­po­mi­na, że przed czwart­kiem, gdy sa­mo­lot zo­stał ze­strze­lo­ny, se­pa­ra­ty­ści chwa­li­li się, że otrzy­mu­ją ra­kie­ty Buk, które mogą ze­strze­li­wać sa­mo­lo­ty, lecz po tra­ge­dii bo­ein­ga sa­mo­zwań­cza Do­niec­ka Re­pu­bli­ka Lu­do­wa, głów­ne sku­pi­sko se­pa­ra­ty­stów, usta­wicz­nie za­prze­cza­ła, by kie­dy­kol­wiek dys­po­no­wa­ła taką bro­nią.

Od chwi­li ka­ta­stro­fy sa­mo­lo­tu z 298 oso­ba­mi na po­kła­dzie trwa­ją spory co do tego, kto wy­strze­lił po­cisk, który strą­cił sa­mo­lot w re­gio­nie, gdzie siły ukra­iń­skie wal­czą z pro­ro­syj­ski­mi se­pa­ra­ty­sta­mi. W wy­wia­dzie dla Reu­te­ra Cho­da­kow­ski oskar­żył wła­dze w Ki­jo­wie o spro­wo­ko­wa­nie sy­tu­acji, w któ­rej mogło dojść do ze­strze­le­nia sa­mo­lo­tu. We­dług niego Kijów ce­lo­wo roz­po­czął na­lo­ty w tym re­jo­nie, wie­dząc, że są na tym ob­sza­rze ra­kie­ty.

- Wie­dzia­łem, że Buk do­tarł z Łu­gań­ska. W tym cza­sie po­wie­dzia­no mi, że Buk z Łu­gań­ska przy­był pod flagą ŁRL (czyli sa­mo­zwań­czej Łu­gań­skiej Re­pu­bli­ki Lu­do­wej, dru­gie­go ba­stio­nu se­pa­ra­ty­stów) - za­zna­czył szef ba­ta­lio­nu Wo­stok.

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- Sądzę, że go ode­sła­no, bo do­wie­dzia­łem się o nim do­kład­nie w mo­men­cie, gdy do­wie­dzia­łem się, że do­szło do tej tra­ge­dii. Za­pew­ne ode­sła­li go (ze­staw Buk), by usu­nąć ślady jego obec­no­ści - po­wie­dział Cho­da­kow­ski Reu­te­ro­wi we wto­rek. We­dług niego Ukra­ina miała - z winy Rosji - in­for­ma­cję, że re­be­lian­ci mają taki sprzęt. - Nie tylko nie zro­bi­ła nic, by za­pew­nić bez­pie­czeń­stwo, lecz spro­wo­ko­wa­ła uży­cie tego typu broni prze­ciw­ko sa­mo­lo­to­wi, który le­ciał sobie z cy­wi­la­mi - oświad­czył se­pa­ra­ty­sta.

Za­rzu­cił siłom ukra­iń­skim, że wie­dząc, iż ze­staw Buk może zo­stać użyty w oko­li­cach miej­sco­wo­ści Sniż­ne, "spro­wo­ko­wa­ły jego uży­cie, ini­cju­jąc atak z po­wie­trza na cel, któ­re­go nie po­trze­bo­wa­ły". Po­wie­dział, że tego dnia siły ukra­iń­skie la­ta­ły in­ten­syw­nie i wła­śnie w chwi­li, gdy le­ciał pa­sa­żer­ski sa­mo­lot, roz­po­czę­ły ataki po­wietrz­ne.

Pre­zy­dent Ukra­iny Petro Po­ro­szen­ko na­zwał w po­nie­dzia­łek nie­praw­dą oświad­cze­nie ro­syj­skie­go mi­ni­ster­stwa obro­ny, które twier­dzi­ło, że ukra­iń­ski sa­mo­lot woj­sko­wy był wi­dzia­ny w od­le­gło­ści 3-5 km od sa­mo­lo­tu ma­le­zyj­skie­go, gdy ten spadł. W wy­wia­dzie dla ame­ry­kań­skiej sta­cji te­le­wi­zyj­nej CNN Po­ro­szen­ko pod­kre­ślił, że w dniu ka­ta­stro­fy wszyst­kie ukra­iń­skie sa­mo­lo­ty woj­sko­we po­zo­sta­wa­ły na ziemi.

Reu­ters pisze, że inni se­pa­ra­ty­ści za­prze­cza­ją, by mieli zwią­zek z ze­strze­le­niem sa­mo­lo­tu ma­le­zyj­skie­go, a Rosja de­men­tu­je, by miała z tym coś wspól­ne­go.

Oficer NATO: Rosja nadal przerzuca broń na Ukrainę

Także po ze­strze­le­niu ma­le­zyj­skie­go sa­mo­lo­tu pa­sa­żer­skie­go nad wschod­nią Ukra­iną z Rosji do­cie­ra na Ukra­inę broń - pisze Reu­ters, po­wo­łu­jąc się na ofi­ce­ra NATO, który za­strzegł sobie ano­ni­mo­wość.

- Za­ob­ser­wo­wa­li­śmy zwięk­sze­nie ilo­ści broni prze­rzu­ca­nej z Rosji na Ukra­inę w ostat­nich kilku ty­go­dniach. W dal­szym ciągu wi­dzi­my do­wo­dy prze­rzu­ca­nia broni na Ukra­inę z Rosji od czasu ze­strze­le­nia MH17 (ozna­cze­nie ko­do­we tego sa­mo­lo­tu Ma­lay­sia Air­li­nes), co jest po­wo­dem do za­nie­po­ko­je­nia - po­wie­dział ów ofi­cer.

Unia Eu­ro­pej­ska we­zwa­ła Rosję, pod groź­bą za­ostrze­nia sank­cji, do wstrzy­ma­nia prze­pły­wu broni na Ukra­inę.

Bo­eing 777 linii Ma­lay­sia Air­li­nes zo­stał ze­strze­lo­ny 17 lipca po­ci­skiem ra­kie­to­wym, od­pa­lo­nym z te­ry­to­rium, kon­tro­lo­wa­ne­go przez pro­ro­syj­skich se­pa­ra­ty­stów na wscho­dzie Ukra­iny. Zgi­nę­ło wszyst­kie 298 osób na po­kła­dzie. We­dług ame­ry­kań­skich źró­deł wy­wia­dow­czych se­pa­ra­ty­ści ze­strze­li­li sa­mo­lot naj­pew­niej "przez po­mył­kę" Rosja "stwo­rzy­ła wa­run­ki" do ze­strze­le­nia, ale to se­pa­ra­ty­ści od­pa­li­li po­cisk - po­da­ły wy­so­kie rangą źró­dła w wy­wia­dzie USA.

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Russia Today relation MH17 crash

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Russia Today RT 20,21,22-07-2014

Tuesday, July 22

18:27 GMT:

The Dutch government has declared Wednesday a day of national mourning as the country prepares for the arrival of the first bodies of victims of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The country's king and queen will be at an air base in Eindhoven to greet two military planes that are scheduled to arrive around 4 p.m. (1400 GMT) Wednesday carrying the first victims' remains.

18:23 GMT:

There are still human remains on the site where a Malaysian passenger plane hit the ground in eastern Ukraine after being downed, a representative of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) watchdog said on Tuesday.

"We observed the presence of smaller body parts at the site," an OSCE spokesman, Michael Bociurkiw, told a briefing in Donetsk after his group inspected the site earlier in the day.

He said all recovery efforts seem to have ended but that at the site his group saw a plastic bag with some human remains left behind while Malaysian experts noticed a strong smell indicating the likely presence of more remains in another spot.

 

17:01 GMT:

The international police agency Interpol said on Tuesday that one of its teams had started the processes of identifying victims of Malaysian Airlines MH17 that crashed over Ukraine last week. The France based agency said that once the preliminary examinations are completed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov, the victims will be transported to the Netherlands where a fuller identification will be carried out.

 

15:12 GMT:

Britain has agreed to a Dutch request for air accident investigators to retrieve data from the black boxes of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which was downed over Ukraine, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. The two boxes may shed some light on Western claims that flight MH17 was shot down with a Russian surface-to-air missile that was fired by self-defense forces.

"We've agreed Dutch request for air accident investigators at Farnborough to retrieve data from MH17 black boxes for international analysis," Cameron said on Twitter.

 

A woman walks past pieces of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the village of Grabove, in the region of Donetsk on July 20, 2014.(AFP Photo / Bulent Kilic)

 

 

12:35 GMT:

The first plane carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 crash in Ukraine will arrive in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced.

"Tomorrow the first plane will leave for Eindhoven," Rutte told journalists. "As soon as some victims are ready to be transported, the plane will leave," the PM said, as cited by the AFP.

For autopsy and other investigative procedures, the bodies will be taken to the Kaporaal van Oudheusden military barracks in Hilversum, some 100 kilometers from Eindhoven airport.

The Dutch PM confirmed that the bodies of all the victims would be brought to the Netherlands to be later flown on to their respective countries.

Rutte stressed that identification of the bodies "could take weeks or months," and that only families of the deceased will be informed of the results.

The Netherlands will conduct a thorough investigation of the crash, promised Rutte.

"We will turn over every last stone, and I can tell you that the Netherlands has, at Ukraine's request, been given the lead role in the investigation," he said.

 

12:32 GMT:

Train with bodies of Malaysian Airlines jet crash victims arrive in Ukraine's Kharkiv.

 

10:27 GMT:

Malaysia said on Tuesday it will keep hold of the black boxes voice and data recorders from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 until an international team is formed and will then hand them over.

"The Malaysian team has taken custody of the black boxes, which appear to be in good condition. They will be held securely in Malaysian custody while the international investigation team is being formalised," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a statement.

"At that time, we will pass the black boxes to the international investigation team for further analysis." (Reuters)

 

10:02 GMT:

Experts from Malaysia have not found any traces of a possible external action against flight recorders of the Boeing-777 that crashed last week in eastern Ukraine, RIA Novosti said.

One expert was quoted by Ukrainian television as saying that there was a little damage to the black boxes, but it was not an external action.

Self-defense forces in eastern Ukraine handed over two flight recorders of the crashed plane to representatives of the Malaysian government.

 

09:02 GMT:

The refrigerator train carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysian Boeing 777 crash has arrived in the city of Kharkov in eastern Ukraine. The train is destined for the Malyshev Factory, a state-owned manufacturer of heavy equipment. All investigations will take place in the government-controlled city of Kharkov, after which the bodies will be handed over to the relatives of the victims.

 

08:04 GMT:

The refrigerator train with the bodies of the Malaysia MH17 plane crash victims is set to arrive in Kharkov at 10.00 GMT, the Dutch premier stated, as quoted by Reuters.

The Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, however, reported that the arrival time is 8.30-9.00 GMT, citing a law enforcement source.

The bodies are to be delivered to a factory in Kharkov that has a separate railway line.

 

03:05 GMT:

Malaysian authorities are planning to transfer the black boxes from the downed plane in the near future, according to New Straits Times.

01:09 GMT:

US President Barack Obama and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski have discussed on the phone the need for increased defense spending in Europe and for transatlantic unity after the MH17 crash, the White House said, as cited by Reuters.

The two leaders also agreed on "the importance of alliance-wide and credible contributions to NATO's reassurance efforts in Central and Eastern Europe."

Obama and Komorowski "stressed the need for Transatlantic solidarity in responding to the tragic shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and Russia's efforts to destabilize Ukraine".

 

00:46 GMT:

Accident investigation experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) arrived in Ukraine over the weekend to begin assisting their Ukrainian counterparts with the official investigation into the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, the organization reported. It did not clarify how many experts are in the team.

 

Monday, July 21

22:41 GMT:

The Ukrainian militia have handed over to Malaysian experts the black boxes from the crashed Boeing-777 airliner.

 

22:16 GMT:

 

21:44 GMT:

Russia welcomes the Netherlands' decision to take on the leading role in the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash and is hoping for objectivity, Russia's UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, told reporters on Monday.

21:26 GMT:

The Netherlands has agreed to take the lead role in the investigation of the Malaysia Airlines plane, the country's Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said at the UN Security Council meeting, reports Itar-Tass. Dutch investigators will work in close cooperation with other countries, the UN, and ICAO.

 

Netherlands Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans speaks after a vote July 21, 2014 at the United Nations (AFP Photo / Timothy A. Clary)

 

 

19:14 GMT:

The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution, introduced by Australia, demanding international access to the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.

Russia did not move to block UNSC Resolution 2166.

"We have been engaged very actively today with the Australian delegation. The Security Council has already pronounced itself in its press statement on the 18th, it said it must be impartial international investigation. That's what we are looking for in the resolution, if this is impartial, international investigation, of course we are going to support it," Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin told reporters before the vote.

The full draft resolution condemned the disaster, called for immediate access to the crash site and demanded an independent investigation.

 

Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin speaks during meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York, July 21, 2014 (Reuters / Eduardo Munoz)

 

 

 

16:42 GMT:

A train carrying victims from the site where a Malaysian airliner crashed has set off from the town of Torez in eastern Ukraine, a Reuters witness said on Monday.

Earlier, Ukraine's deputy prime minister said the train would travel to the eastern city of Kharkov before the bodies would be taken to the Netherlands.

 

16:27 GMT:

A truce in the 40 km radius zone around the Malaysian Boeing crash site has been agreed with Donetsk self-defense forces, Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk said.

 

15:56 GMT:

 

 

15:38 GMT:

In a harshly worded statement, US President Barack Obama accused rebels in eastern Ukraine of tampering with evidence at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. He called on Russia to influence separatists in that area to allow the investigation into the shooting down of the Boeing 777. He also stressed the need for accountability for those responsible for launching the surface-to-air missile that brought the plane down.

"Our immediate focus is on recovering those who were lost, investigating what happened, and putting forward facts," Obama said from the White House South Lawn. "International teams are already in place, prepared to investigate. But the Russian-backed separatists who control the area continue to block their access."

"As investigators approached the area, the rebels fired rifles into the area," Obama added, asking, "What are they trying to hide?"

The president lambasted the rebels for moving the bodies from the crash site "without the care we would normally expect," saying it is "an insult to those who have lost loved ones."

He also called on Russia, and President Vladimir Putin in particular, to direct those responsible for blocking the investigation to cooperate with the international investigators because "it is the least they can do."

Obama commended Putin for calling for cooperation, but said that the Russian president's words are not supported by his actions.

 

14:53 GMT:

The recovery crew has finished its search for bodies at the site of MH17 crash, Kiev said. A total of 282 pf bodies has been found. They are expected to be taken to the eastern city of Kharkov at 7pm local time.

 

13:21 GMT:

 

13:14 GMT:

Dutch prosecutors have opened an investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17, in which all 298 passengers died, on suspicion of murder, war crimes and intentionally downing an airliner, a spokesman said on Monday.

Based on the Law on International Crimes, the Netherlands can prosecute any individual who committed a war crime against a Dutch citizen. As part of the investigation, a Dutch public prosecutor is conducting an investigation in Ukraine, a spokesman said. (Reuters)

 

12:42 GMT:

Ukrainian President Poroshenko has spoken in favor of inviting Russian experts to participate in the Malaysian Airlines plane crash investigation.

"As the Ukrainian president, I first of all invited the representatives of the countries who suffered – the Netherlands, Malaysia, Germany, the UK, Australia, the US – and also ordered to invite a Russian representative in order to make it as transparent as possible," Poroshenko stated.

 

12:12 GMT:

The investigation into the Malaysia plane crash is to be conducted in the Netherlands, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared.

The president underlined that Ukraine and the Netherlands have "agreed to coordinate the actions not only in transferring the bodies home, not only in the investigation into the causes of the crash, but also to coordinate the actions, so that organizers and the contractors of the terrible crime are held responsible and meet with their deserved punishment."

 

11:22 GMT:

Some 282 bodies of Malaysia plane crash victims have been recovered from the disaster site, authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic stated.

"Bodies have been collected from the crash site in a maximum correct way possible, and have been loaded into five refrigerated carriages which are now at the Torez train station. They aren't going anywhere yet. We can only send them somewhere accompanied by experts," the self-proclaimed republic's premier Aleksandr Boroday told journalists.

 

10:39 GMT:

 

 

10:20 GMT:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told journalists at a press conference in Kiev he has ordered troops to stop all military actions within a radius of 40km from the site of the Malaysian Boeing crash.

Poroshenko also said he's invited Russian experts to take part in investigating the plane crash.

"As Ukrainian president I immediately invited representatives of the countries which lost their citizens in the crash, first of all – representatives of the Netherlands, Malaysia, Germany, Great Britain, Australia and the US – and I gave an order to invite a Russian representative, so that [the investigation] could be conducted in the most transparent way," Poroshenko said, as cited by ITAR-TASS.

 

 

09:42 GMT:

The full-scale investigation into the causes of the MH17 plane crash is complicated by the lack of agreement between the sides of the Ukrainian conflict on the safety guarantees for foreign specialists who are still in Kiev and Kharkov, according to the latest Russian Foreign Ministry statement.

The Dutch team of experts has arrived to the refrigerator train with the remains of the crash victims.

 

 

09:20 GMT:

 

08:59 GMT:

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the country's authorities would prefer to bring MH17 crash bodies back to the Netherlands for identification purposes, Reuters reports. Rutte also says it remains unclear where the black boxes are, adding that he agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the boxes must go to the International Civil Aviation Organization for analysis.

08:55 GMT:

 

08:51 GMT:

A group of forensic experts from the Netherlands has arrived at the train station in the Ukrainian town of Torez to examine the bodies of those killed in the MH17 plane crash, a RIA Novosti correspondent on the ground reports.

08:22 GMT:

So far 272 dead bodies have been recovered at the site of the Malaysian Boeing crash, 251 are currently in refrigerated train cars at Torez Station in eastern Ukraine, says Ukrainian PM Arseny Yatsenyuk, as cited by RIA Novosti.

Yatsenyuk has said Kiev is ready to hand control of the investigation over to Western partners, possibly led by experts from the Netherlands. The prime minister added Kiev was ready to transport the dead bodies to Amsterdam.

 

 

06:13 GMT:

A second refrigerator train has arrived in Torez, Interfax reported, citing the Ukrainian state commission responsible for the plane crash investigation.

So far, 251 bodies of victims have been found, Reuters reported.

 

Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe walk near a train, which according to employees and local residents contains bodies of passengers of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane, at a railway station in the town of Torez, Donetsk region July 20, 2014. (Reuters / Maxim Zmeyev)

 

 

04:58 GMT:

UK broadcaster Sky News has issued an apology after one of its presenters was filmed rummaging through the luggage surrounding the downed MH17. During a broadcast, presenter Colin Brazier searched through personal belongings and picked up a set of keys before saying: "We shouldn't really be doing this."

The move triggered massive backlash on social media as people called for Brazier to be sacked.

"Colin immediately recognized that this was inappropriate and said so on air. Both Colin and Sky News apologize profusely for any offence caused," a spokesperson from Sky News said in a statement.

 

02:22 GMT:

Russia has introduced its own draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for an impartial investigation of Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in Ukraine, Russia's ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin said.

'Yes, we did it," Churkin told reported answering the question about Russia's draft. "Just to show what we are talking about. The difference is that in our draft it is absolutely clear it is indeed an impartial international investigation under the under the guidance of ICAO."

Churkin said Russia is ready to support any resolution that would have the same ultimate goal. "If it is about an international impartial probe – yes, of course, we will support [the resolution]."

01:39 GMT:

The Australian Government is considering designating MH17 disaster as a terrorist act, so that families of the victims would be eligible to receive up to $75,000 compensation, ABC Australia has learned.

00:21 GMT:

In connection with the Malaysian Airlines tragedy in Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel held telephone talks with seven world leaders on Sunday,

Merkel called Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, her office said in a statement.

All participants in conversations "were unanimous in their view that immediate unhindered access to the crash site should be provided to international independent commission."

 

German chancellor Angela Merkel (AFP Photo / Clemens Bilan)

 

Sunday, July 20

22:26 GMT:

French President Francois Hollande in a telephone call to the Russian leader Vladimir Putin urged him to influence anti-Kiev forces to hand over the "black boxes" to "competent authorities", RIA Novosti reports citing a statement from the Elysee Palace.

The Kremlin said that Putin highlighted the need for a "comprehensive and objective international investigation" into the circumstances surrounding the crash.

20:33 GMT:

Russian President Vladimir Putin informed the prime minister of Australia, Tony Abbott of the steps Russia is taking to support the international investigation of the MH17 crash, and the help it is willing to offer to the international investigation team of the ICAO.

The Russian leader expressed his sincerest condolences to families of the Australian victims. Both sides agreed on the need to conduct a fair investigation and "to avoid politicized statements in connection with the tragedy," the Kremlin said.

"Leaders of the two countries agreed on cooperation between the foreign ministries in international organizations, including the UN, in order to create the necessary conditions for the ICAO international experts, including in the security plan their activities at the crash site in Ukraine," the statement says.

20:29 GMT:

Search teams have found the bodies of 247 of the 298 passengers killed in Boeing plane crash, Donetsk People's Republic authorities report.

"All the bodies are now in refrigerators at a railway station in Tores and will remain there until the Ministry of Emergencies and international experts make a decision about moving them," DPR's Sergey Kavtaradze told the Russian news service, adding that they are contemplating moving the remains to the city of Mariupol.

 

Employees of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service carry the body of a victim past debris at the site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in Grabove, in east Ukraine, on July 19, 2014. (AFP Photo / Dominique Faget)

 

He also assured that that DNR is providing proper access and security to the OSCE members and four Ukrainian experts, who work at the crash site, and are willing to help the international aviation experts in every way possible. He said the international delegation is yet to reach the crash site.

"We will meet the experts and provide them with the maximum safety and access to the entire disaster area," said Kavtaradze, Itar-Tass reports.

20:12 GMT:

In a telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte both sides "stressed the need to promptly provide access to the accident site to the ICAO international experts to conduct an independent and objective investigation," the Kremilin said in a statement.

Both politicians have also called to end the hostilities in eastern Ukraine, especially the crash area.

20:02 GMT:

The OSCE has no information about the location of the MH17's flight data recording boxes, also known as black boxes, spokesperson for the OSCE Michael Bociurkiw said, as he confirmed that their 'monitoring mission to Ukraine' is more than happy to provide help in the transfer of the black boxes.

"So we have not seen the black boxes, in the past two or three days we had enquired about them but we did not receive any answers at the actual site. We have said, as we have been saying for quite some time, that if there is a role that we can play in dialogue facilitation, or perhaps facilitation of that transfer, then we would be in a position to do so," Bociurkiw said.

18:53 GMT:

Russia's President Vladimir Putin said it is important to refrain from making any hasty conclusions and politicized statements before the end of the investigation of the Malaysian Airlines plane crash.

"The prime cause of this tragedy is the armed confrontation in Ukraine, including in the region of the plane crash," he said in a phone conversation with British Prime Minister David Cameron, according to the Kremlin press-service.

Russia is ready to provide necessary assistance in organizing and carrying out a thorough international inquiry led by ICAO, Putin said.

 

17:06 GMT:

The Dutch Prime Minster, Mark Rutte, has said that world leaders have agreed that the Netherlands will coordinate victim identification efforts of the bodies killed when the Malaysian airlines jet was blasted out of the sky by a missile.

 

13:41 GMT:

Another 27 bodies of passengers have been found, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman said. A total 223 bodies have so far been recovered.

 

13:33 GMT:

Britain will on Tuesday seek to persuade other European leaders to impose further sanctions on Russia over the downing of a Malaysian jet carrying 298 passengers, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday.

"We will ... seek to get our European partners to agree to go further in terms of sanctions if Russia hasn't radically changed its position by then," Hammond told the BBC ahead of a meeting of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council on Tuesday. (Reuters)

 

10:00 GMT:

Five refrigerated train carriages with bodies of those killed in the MH17 plane crash have departed from the town of Torez, near the crash site, to the town of Ilovaysk and will next go to Donetsk, according to RIA Novosti citing the local station operator.

Before being sent away, the carriages were reportedly examined by the OSCE observers, who said there were 198 bodies inside.

 

 

07:53 GMT:

Ukrainian authorities have agreed with the representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic on the removal of bodies from the plane crash site, according to Ukrainian Deputy-Premier Vladimir Groisman.

"A preliminary agreement with those who are in control of the plane crash site has been reached," Groisman said, according to Ukrainian government's official website.

The bodies are supposed to be carried out from the site in refrigerated train carriages by Ukrainian experts accompanied by OSCE observers.

 

AFP Photo / Dominique Faget

 

07:20 GMT:

The government of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) guarantees the security of international experts at the site of the MH17 plane crash if the Ukrainian authorities agree to ceasefire, according to statement by DPR's deputy PM, Andrey Purgin.

"We declare that we guarantee security of international experts at the site of the tragedy if Kiev agrees to a ceasefire," the statement reads as cited by RIA Novosti. "We call on Kiev to immediately sign this agreement with DPR at least for the period of time while experts are going to work at the site of the plane crash."

 

06:53 GMT:

A memorial service has been held at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia for the 298 victims of the MH17 air disaster.

The number of Australians killed in the crash rose from 28 to at least 36 on Sunday as the names of eight people from overseas who had chosen to make Australia their home were added, Associated Press reports.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who attended the ceremony, described the crash site in the territory controlled by anti-Kiev forces as "absolutely chaotic" and said that reports of militia on the ground interfering with the evidence were "outrageous."

He also said Russia could have a hand in the tragedy, while expressing skepticism over Moscow's willingness to co-operate with an international investigation of the plane crash.

"Russian-controlled territory, Russian-backed rebels, quite likely a Russian-supplied weapon - Russia can't wash its hands of this," Abbott said.

 

Father Simon Ckuj blesses a wreath that was laid by members of the Australian Ukrainian community during a prayer vigil for those killed in the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, at the St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic church in Sydney July 19, 2014.(Reuters / David Gray)

 

 

03:26 GMT:

Dutch 29-year-old cyclist Maarten de Jonge, has cheated death twice having been scheduled to fly in the last two Malaysian Airlines disasters.

De Jonge was scheduled to fly aboard Flight MH370 that went missing in March and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which was downed on Thursday before changing his travel arrangements both times at the last minute.

The cyclist plans to travel to Malaysia this Sunday and has no concerns for his safety.

"I have been lucky twice, that's the third time as well," de Jonge reportedly said, The Daily Mail reports. The Dutchman is part of the Terengganu Cycling Team based in Malaysia.

02:45 GMT:

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the plane crash site is "absolutely chaotic", claiming that such an environment hinders the investigation efforts.

"The difficulty is that site is chaotic, it's absolutely chaotic," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "The kinds of things that would normally be happening in an air crash site are not happening."

"This just makes it absolutely imperative, imperative, that Australia do everything we can to recover the bodies, to ensure that the site is secured, a proper investigation is done, and then justice is secured."

01:29 GMT:

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said that flight MH17 black boxes are a property of Malaysia. "Those who have no rights whatsoever cannot claim or take control of the black boxes," he said.